rails
[reɪls]
The verdict
“rails” is uncommon German (frequency #90,767 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,767
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs rail
Corpus desk
Index DE-rails · rails · German
rails · rank #90,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,767
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 42,116
- PHOTO-FINISH raison
Nearest frequency peer: raison (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “rails”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- queeren
queeren
9,239 corpus weight
- rails
rails
9,234 corpus weight
- raison
raison
9,233 corpus weight
- Randgruppe
Randgruppe
9,232 corpus weight
- Rassistin
Rassistin
9,230 corpus weight
- Raubkunst
Raubkunst
9,229 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rails” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rails |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reɪls] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rails” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rails is uncommon German at frequency #90,767 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [reɪls]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs rail".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rails in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is rails, spelled R-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs rail
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.